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matternet

matternet proper noun: a network of autonomously controlled, multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that transport small packages of a standardised size.

Proper noun

matternet

  1. A network of autonomously controlled, multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that transport small packages of a standardised size.
    • Over the matternet, so the vision goes, hospitals could send urgent medicines to remote clinics more quickly than they could via roads, and blood samples could be sent and returned within hours. A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it via mobile...2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023, page 3 (Technology Quarterly)

Origin of matternet

From matter + net.

Questions about matternet

What does matternet mean?
Matternet means a network of autonomously controlled, multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that transport small packages of a standardised size.
What part of speech is matternet?
Matternet is a proper noun.

Words near matternet in the dictionary

  1. matterings
  2. matterless
  3. matterlessness
  4. matterlike
  5. Mattern
  6. matternet
  7. Matterns
  8. matters
  9. matters at hand
  10. matters of course
  11. matters of fact

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